Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of an ancient Chinese sculpture

Chinese scientists are exploring a mysterious piece of ceramics in the shape of a woman's head, which was found at an excavation on the site of a Neolithic settlement in the village of Shuandun in Anhui in 1985.
According to the China Daily, the age of a fragment of ceramic sculpture, established using the method of radioisotope dating, is 7,3 thousand years. Now it is stored in the museum of the city of Bengbu in the Anhui province in East China. The statue is made of a structure that includes ground and mica and quartz crushed into powder. It is a shiny tattooed woman's face with signs on her forehead, which archaeologists allegedly consider to be a symbol of the sun.
The 6,5 cm relic is the earliest example of such ceramics ever found in China. The ceramic head of a woman is one of a kind. The rest of the finds in the Shuandun village were dishes with the images of various symbols considered to be the precursor to Chinese hieroglyphs.